Meet the transgender teen who hopes to be the next Las Palmas carnival queen

The costumes tend to weigh in the hundreds of pounds but Lola Rodríguez is used to feeling an unusual burden of responsibility for a 16-year-old. Lola is bidding to be selected as Las Palmas carnival queen 2015 in her native Canary Islands, despite the fact that, legally, she is a man. Lola is not the first…